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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have great successes on synthesizing data. However, the existing GANs restrict the discriminator to be a binary classifier, and thus limit their learning capacity for tasks that need to synthesize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Kevin Lin , Dianqi Li , Xiaodong He , Zhengyou Zhang , Ming-Ting Sun

Environmental pollution is a critical global issue, with recycling emerging as one of the most viable solutions. This study focuses on waste segregation, a crucial step in recycling processes to obtain raw material. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Maimoona Jafar , Syed Imran Ali , Ahsan Saadat , Muhammad Bilal , Shah Khalid

Sampling-based path planning algorithms play an important role in autonomous robotics. However, a common problem among these algorithms is that the initial path generated is not optimal, and the convergence is too slow for real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Abhinav Sagar , Sai Teja Gilukara

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have emerged as a powerful method for learning the mapping from noisy latent spaces to realistic data samples in high-dimensional space. So far, the development and application of GANs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-30 Atanas Mirchev , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

The growing amount of waste is a problem for the environment that requires efficient sorting techniques for various kinds of waste. An automated waste classification system is used for this purpose. The effectiveness of these Artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Misbah Ijaz , Saif Ur Rehman Khan , Abd Ur Rehman , Tayyaba Asif , Sebastian Vollmer , Andreas Dengel , Muhammad Nabeel Asim

Polythene has always been a threat to the environment since its invention. It is non-biodegradable and very difficult to recycle. Even after many awareness campaigns and practices, Separation of polythene bags from waste has been a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Divyansh Singh

This paper proposes a series of new approaches to improve Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for conditional image synthesis and we name the proposed model as ArtGAN. One of the key innovation of ArtGAN is that, the gradient of the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been remarkably successful at learning to sample from distributions specified by a given dataset, particularly if the given dataset is reasonably large compared to its dimensionality. However, given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Tiantian Fang , Ruoyu Sun , Alex Schwing

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have led to the creation of realistic-looking digital images that pose a major challenge to their detection by humans or computers. GANs are used in a wide range of tasks, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Michael Goebel , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

As a new way of training generative models, Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) that uses a discriminative model to guide the training of the generative model has enjoyed considerable success in generating real-valued data. However, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Lantao Yu , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang , Yong Yu

We introduce DatasetGAN: an automatic procedure to generate massive datasets of high-quality semantically segmented images requiring minimal human effort. Current deep networks are extremely data-hungry, benefiting from training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yuxuan Zhang , Huan Ling , Jun Gao , Kangxue Yin , Jean-Francois Lafleche , Adela Barriuso , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Object density reconstruction from projections containing scattered radiation and noise is of critical importance in many applications. Existing scatter correction and density reconstruction methods may not provide the high accuracy needed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Zhishen Huang , Marc Klasky , Trevor Wilcox , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Nanomaterials exhibit distinctive properties governed by parameters such as size, shape, and surface characteristics, which critically influence their applications and interactions across technological, biological, and environmental…

Visual inspection software has become a key factor in the manufacturing industry for quality control and process monitoring. Semantic segmentation models have gained importance since they allow for more precise examination. These models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Silvan Mertes , Andreas Margraf , Steffen Geinitz , Elisabeth André

Quality control is a crucial activity performed by manufacturing companies to ensure their products conform to the requirements and specifications. The introduction of artificial intelligence models enables to automate the visual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jože M. Rožanec , Patrik Zajec , Spyros Theodoropoulos , Erik Koehorst , Blaž Fortuna , Dunja Mladenić

Supervised classification methods have been widely utilized for the quality assurance of the advanced manufacturing process, such as additive manufacturing (AM) for anomaly (defects) detection. However, since abnormal states (with defects)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jihoon Chung , Bo Shen , Zhenyu , Kong

This paper proposes an extension to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), namely as ARTGAN to synthetically generate more challenging and complex images such as artwork that have abstract characteristics. This is in contrast to most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka

Many existing conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) are limited to conditioning on pre-defined and fixed class-level semantic labels or attributes. We propose an open set GAN architecture (OpenGAN) that is conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Luke Ditria , Benjamin J. Meyer , Tom Drummond

Distant supervision can effectively label data for relation extraction, but suffers from the noise labeling problem. Recent works mainly perform soft bag-level noise reduction strategies to find the relatively better samples in a sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Pengda Qin , Weiran Xu , William Yang Wang

The paper proposes a solution based on Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for solving jigsaw puzzles. The problem assumes that an image is divided into equal square pieces, and asks to recover the image according to information provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Ru Li , Shuaicheng Liu , Guangfu Wang , Guanghui Liu , Bing Zeng